Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must strictly speaking at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

Someone's always saying "It's not whether you win or lose " but if you feel that way you're as good as dead.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.

I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.

I love to dance and dance all night long.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab